Quotes About Change

Aging in women is 'unbeautiful' since women grow more powerful with time, and since the links between generations of women must always be broken.

Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle.

Each time we act to improve the life of another person, we send forth a ripple of hope in what appears to be a hopeless society.

My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.

Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.

We may make progress only by freeing ourselves from the rut of the past, but without this rut an orderly society would hardly be possible in the first place.

It is always the task of the intellectual to "think otherwise." This is not just a perverse idiosyncrasy. It is an absolutely essential feature of a society.

It's too presumptuous and naïve to think you can change society by a photograph or anything else... I equate that with propaganda; I think that's a lower rank of purpose.

Music is always a commentary on society.

All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first.

I believe I have a personal responsibility to make a positive impact on society.

Remember, children. For every exit, there is also an entrance. ~ Milligan, The Mysterious Benedict Society

I welcomed the organization of the Anti-slavery Society.

I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.

It isn't so much that hard times are coming; the change observed is mostly soft times going.

In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a terrible upheaval, a social earthquake.

Anybody who feels at ease in the world today is a fool.

I think we foreshorten our own viewpoint if we consider any state of mind, or society, or government as final. Growth and change! We can't get away from them.

You have to totally change the way that society's structured in order to being to heal.

It is change continuing change, inevitable change that is the dominant factor in society today.

Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new.

If we could all take a sober look at our history, then we would no longer see this nostalgic attitude to the Soviet past that predominates among the less affected part of our society.

Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it.

The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave.